She was spearfishing in the Bahamas when a shark attacked. She did get a souvenir.

A blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) like this one bit a Massachusetts woman in the hand while she was spearfishing in the Bahamas on Sept. 23, 2018. She was flown to Hollywood’s Memorial Regional for surgery. Matthew D. PotenskiAP

A blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) like this one bit a Massachusetts woman in the hand while she was spearfishing in the Bahamas on Sept. 23, 2018. She was flown to Hollywood’s Memorial Regional for surgery. Matthew D. PotenskiAP

A spearfishing excursion in the Bahamas turned into a painful detour to Hollywood for a Massachusetts woman.

Boston’s WCVB identified the woman as Maggie Ewing, 32. She was spearfishing with three others off the Treasure Cay coast on the Grand Abaco Island when she was bitten by a shark Sunday afternoon.

She had just speared a hogfish and was close to getting on a boat when the blacktip shark attacked.

She didn’t get her hogfish but came away with something else. Ewing was flown by Trinity Air Ambulance to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. According to WCVB, doctors, working to save her fingers Sunday night, found a shark tooth in her hand.

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